Thu. Sep 19th, 2024
alert-–-shocking-new-footage-shows-influencer-maecee-marie-lathers-stumbling-away-from-horror-crashAlert – Shocking new footage shows influencer Maecee Marie Lathers stumbling away from horror crash

New video surveillance footage showed the moments after a social media model crashed her car into two other vehicles in downtown Miami, allegedly killing two people.

In the haunting footage, social media influencer, Maecee Marie Lathers, 24, who claimed to be on party drugs at the time, walked away from the scene with her hoodie up covering her face as a group of concerned witnesses ran toward the scene in an attempt to help. 

She stopped and turned around, joining a group of people as they headed in the direction of the accident. 

She was then arrested back at the scene of the crash. 

The video also showed Lathers speeding down the road in her white Mercedes.  

Despite walking away, bystanders later confronted the model for allegedly fleeing the scene, according to NBC Miami.

Previously released police bodycam footage showed a topless Lathers face down on the ground while screaming as first responders arrived.

Officers urged Lathers to stay a certain way on the ground because she was vomiting at the scene before she was put in an ambulance.

Arrest records said that she was traveling at approximately 57mph five seconds before the crash with the accelerator at 100 percent. 

The car increased speed to 78mph at the moment it crashed into the other vehicle, NBC added.

Lathers told police she was on ‘tuci’ – a new designer drug that comes in a pink powder form that contains a mix of psychoactive substances. The party drug is also labeled as ‘pink cocaine’ and is usually made of ketamine and other substances.

Lathers is now facing 10 charges that include vehicular homicide, reckless driving and driving with a suspended license and causing injury.

A Miami judge, Teresa Mary Pooler, handed down an uncompromising order of no bond to the Instagram model and ruled on Monday that the influencer would stay in jail.

Footage from WPLG Local 10 showed Lathers visibly distraught with her head in her hands once she heard her fate inside the court room. 

This came after Lathers’ defense attorney, Martez Gordon, asked the court that she be released on house arrest.

Gordon argued that the defense felt the state did not present new evidence at Monday’s hearing, NBC added.

She had previously been granted house arrest after posting bond but was sent back to jail on September 10.

Although the defense pushed for house arrest, Judge Pooler seemed to believe that Lathers was not only a danger to others, but a danger to aborting her in-home arrest if given to her. 

‘I think she’s extremely dangerous,’ said Pooler. ‘As much as I respect house arrest, if someone wants to go they can go. It’s a simple matter of cutting that bracelet off and leaving.’ 

The Instagram influencer had a license that had been suspended since January and was never supposed to be behind the wheel to begin with.

Juana Hernandez’s life partner was Abraham Molina. Although she was in the crash, she miraculously survived. 

‘The judge did the right thing,’ said Hernandez in court on Monday.

Hernandez organized a GoFundMe to support Molina’s family.

So far, $17,229 has been raised in the fundraiser that has a $20,000 goal. 

Hernandez wrote that the money would go to Molina’s 16-year-old son and his mother in Nicaragua who suffers from Parkinson’s disease.

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